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Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
A Large City.

If any one were to walk one wav
through all the streets of London. he
would be obliged to go a distance of
two thousand six hundred miles, or as
far as it is across the American CONT
nent from New York to San Francisco.
This will give an idea of what would
have to be done in order to see even
the greater part of London.
In our approach to New York, as
well as in our rambles through its
streets, we shall not be struck so much
by its splendid and imposing appear
ance as by its immensely. Go where
we may, there seems to be no end to
the town. 1t is fourteen miles one
way, and eight miles the other. and
contains a population of nearly four
million people, which is greater, in
deed, than that of Switzerland or the
Kingdoms of Denmark and Greece
combined. We are told on good au-
thority that there are more Scotchmen
in London than in Edinburgh, more
lrlshmen than in Dublin, and more
Jews than in Palestine, with foreigners
from all parts of the world, including a
great number of Americans. Yet
there are so many Englishmen in Lon
don, that one is not likely to notice the
presence of these people of other ma
tions.
This vast body of citizens, some so
rich that they never can count their
money, and some so poor that thew
never have any to count, eat every year
four hundred thousand oxen, one and
a half million sheep, eight million
chickens and game birds, not to speak
OF calves, hogs, and different kinds of
hsh. They consume five hundred mil
hon oysters, which, although it seems
like large number, would only give.
II equally divided among all the peo-
pie, one oyster every third day to each
person. There are three hundred
thousand servants in London, enough
people to make large city; but as
this gives only one servant to each
dozen citizens, it is quite evident that
great many of the people must wait
on themselves. Things are very I'M
equally divided in London; and 1
have no doubt that instead of there be-
ing one servant to twelve persons, some
OF the rich lords and ladies have twelve
servants apiece.-FrOm King London"
6y Frank X. Stockton, in st. Nicholas
for June.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

Messrs. L. P. Mcdowell & Sou. of
MiddletOwn, purchased the entire crop
of white potatoes of Sereck F. Shall
cross and others in this vicinity, and
last week shipped two car loads of
them from Middletown station TO
southern Indiana, a section which was
devastated by the drouths during the
early and midsummer. This is the
first shipment of potatoes ever made
from MiddletOwn to western points.
The firm is also buying New York
state potatoes to be consigned to the
same points. A letter from L. P. Nc
Dowell, who is now in the West, states
that the farmers in these regions have
for the past six weeks been cutting up
their corn and feeding grain and all to
cattle to keep them alive, the pasture
having utterly failed Transcript.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

Prof. VIM. C. Robinson, Jr., son Of
Rev. Wm. c. Robinson, of the Phila-
delphia Conference, who graduated
from Dickinson College in 1883, and is
postgraduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, entered Col. Hyatt's
Pennsylvania Military Academy at
Chester, Pa, last week, taking the
chair of chemistry, for which, or any
other, he has fitted himself by indus
trious preparation. The Chester insti-
tuition gives him a fine field Of useful
ness, as its reputation is among the
very highest in the country.
Prof. Robinson was born in Smyrna,
Del, during the passionate Of his father
Of the M. r. Church.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

The pitcher had little ball, and it
was white as snow, and where the
striker thought it was, that ball it
wouldn't go. It had a sudden inshoot
curve, it had fearful drop, and when
the striker wildly struck. the ball it
didn't stop. "Why does the ball fool
strikers SOP" the children all did cry.
1.-THE pitcher twirls the ball, you
know" the teacher did reply.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

Here is a veterans ticket for 1888
which is now going the rounds:
For President-Simon Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania.
For Vice President Hannibal Ham
lin, of Maine.
Platform-Give old mon a chance.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

The editor of the Cecil Democrat in a
lengthy article of over two columns
deplores the fact that Maryland has
furnished but one truly prominent and
great statesman, fancy, during our
national existence Of more than a CEN
tury. He says that he is mortified that
such is the case but the truth must be
told. The editor claims that the fault
is not with Maryland brains or Mary
land culture, but with Maryland meth
DDS.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
CARPETS! CARPETS

Having made arrangements to
sell Carpets by sample, l ask all
who want Carpets of any grade
or pattern to call and examine the
sample. Prices guaranteed as
low as the same goods can be
sold in New York or .Philadel-
phia. Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs,
Mats, Mating, Carpet Lining,
Ottomans, Stair Rods, Druggets,
Window Shades, Plain and Col
ored Scrims, &c, &c, &c.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

The Bright Member.-"My older
brother was the bright member of the
family. He was studiOus and thought
full and left NE far in the distance"
"What became of himY"
He went to college and graduated
with the highest honOrs.
"And now9"
HE is gripman on a Chicago cable
car. "-LincOln (Neb.l Journal.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

Institute Building, Cor. 9Th and Market
streets, Wilmington, Del, reOpens Sept. lst.
1876 students last year.
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS.
Bookkeeping, Business Forms and Gus
toms, Penmanship, Business Arithmetic
Correspondence, Commercial Law, Prac-
teal spelling.
BUSINESS PRACTICE
in an actual Bank, Jobbing and Commits.
sion Houses, Freight and Agency Offices.
LECTURES ON BUSINESS SUBJECTS,
by leading lawyer, expert accountant,
prominent clergyman, and business men.
SHORTHAND AND TYPE-WRITING
DEPARTMENT.
Rates low. Both sexes. Write for new cat
alogue with particulars, and testimonials.
Ag 1O-2m H. S. GOLDEY, Principal
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

This is the season when it is proper
for the young man whose summer suit
shows signs Of wear, and who has not
yet found it convenient to buy a fall
suit, to don his last springs over coat
and make remarks about the cool even
ings.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

Some Of our sportsmen are making
extensive preparation for the a.n,,,,. g
season which is pear at hama R;r5s
and other game is said to be plentis,I
and a lively campaign may Be expected
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
WOndsrful cur...

w. d. HOyt & Co, Wholesale and Retail Drug
gists Of Rome, Ga, says: We have been selling
DR.. Kings New Discovery, Electric Bitters and
Bucklen's Arnica Salve for two years. Have
never handled remedies that sell as we'll or give
such universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected By these medicines
In this city. Several cases OF pronounced Con-
sumption have been entirely cured BY uae OF a
few bottles Of Dr. Kings New Discovery, taken In
connaction with Electric Bitters. We guarantee
them always. Sold BY Jas. P. H0necker. feb 2s-ly
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28

The Burlington Free Press notices
that man who is well on in years
and well OF in money is generally
considered a great matrimonial prize.
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
SAIE STREET, opposite The Smyrna House.
Furniture of all kinds.

Parlor ana Chamber Suits. Bureaus Bedsteads,
Chairs Lounges, Tables Stands. Mattresses. Spring
anteed at or less than City prices for the same
quality of goods. Jan If
Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
We are almost

giving away
1000 pieces Of
Tapestry Brussels CaFpeting.
e; ;s5s4 ISsd s 3 Go per ID
z @RR aiiiS'9aSS e, at Sc pE ID
Our special sales have always attrac-
ted large number of buyers from oil
parts of the city and country. This is
at such low down prices, and no one
should miss the chance ofsecuring some
and doing so quickly.
800 & 81 Chestnut st., U0lS0n s,
Philadelphia. Manufacturers.
Aug24-7w
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17
4 Paper in State Prison.

TIE PRISON MIRROR. published ine the
state prison at Saltwater, has reached our
table. 1t is a credituble four-page sheet
with the motto, God helps those who help
themselves" Its appearance carries us at
once back to the scenes and incidents rela-
ted in that powerful novel by Chas Reade,
Never to Late to Mend" where the brutal
Haws goes out and the printing press and
the loom comes in, taking the places of the
crank and Jacket" horrible instru-
ments of injustice through which brutality
had done a work of EQUALIZATION and death,
the remembrance of which causes shud-
der. The old ideas of prison discipline have
been long since exploded. and it will do no
harm to have the light of the printing press
shining out from behind the prison bars.
Its management will be without official
interference. 1t certainly looks like an en-
terpriSe that will afford both instruction and
pleasure, with reasonable promise of
proft.-Red Wing Republican.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17
A Monument TO the Younger Boys.

The PRISON MIRROR is the latest enter
from behind the bars of the state building
at Saltwater. This is the first introduction
of the printing press into a penal institution,
and thus the maiden issue of the MIRROR
form in this country. 1t reflects the first
ray of blessed light which is to shine upon
the dreary lives of those who have gone
down to prison cells and have been branded
as social Outcasts. The Prison MIRROR
was founded by fifteen of the inmates of the
Saltwater prison. The shareholders con-
tributed the amount necessary to start the
paper out of their prison earnings. Among
the principal shareholders are the three
Younger brothers. Coleman. James and
Robert. Lewis p. SchOonmaker is mana
ging editor and Warden StOrdock has a
general supervision of the enterprise. All
the profits arising from the paper are to be
devoted solely to tine purchase of books and
periodicals for the prison library. Cole
Younger is the librarian of the prison. and
as he is an inmate for life, the unfortunate
fellow is making the richest atonement
within his power for the errors of his past
life. The good that the MIRROR will do
for his fellow prisoners will be a monument
to his memory that many a more fortunate
person thar Cole Younger might envy-St.
Paul Daily Globe.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17
Not All Innocent.

Very many respectable and intelligent
men and women in ali parts of the world
are manifesting an interest in prison matters.
which is at once cOmmendable and inSpir-
ing. 1t is an evidence of a more clear con-
ception of one of the practical duties of chris
tianity, and of a growing disposition to pay
some regard to its obligations. Publicists;
have agreed that the time has come when
something more than passing notice must
be paid to the penitentiary and the Jail.
1t is needless to inquire by what motives
Or from which direction this opinion has been
arrived at. it being sufficient for the present
purpose to observe that among people who
are capable of considering the beam that is
in their own eye. there is an inclination to
grant large sympathy to the penitent con-
vict. who gives evidence of reform.
The first law of christianity is blindness"
and espec tally kindness to the convicted
sinner: and society is bound. while preserv-
ing all safeguards necessary to its in
tegrity, to deal kindly with persons whom
it is compelled to punish for wrong doing.
The good intentions of Legislator, is every
where more perceptible each day. There
is likewise an apparent determination to
deal sharply, severely. ard finally with the
impenitent and ncorrigible.
And while it is true that there are some in
nOcent men in prison. and many guilty ones
out Of prison. the fact does not apply that
ALL who are inside are innocent, nor that
all that are outside guilty. 1t is but a reas-
enable suppostion. and possibility that a
small minority Of those in prison are innO-
cent. yet it does no. look well to see the
majority OF cOnvictS las is usually the
case" scrambing to be counted in as one
amidst the aforesaid minority; such eager
ness on their part has tendency to destroy
all favorable public consideration, which
might otherwise have been granted, because
of the a5surdity of such cry. which is in
consistent with good common sense; to in
fer that the courts, jurors. and scores Of
witnesses, and even entire communities are
bent upon injustice and revenge that they
are combined to maliciOuSly down the accus-
ed as an object OF their vindictive hate, is
bry"nd reason and truth. 81.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

we have received No. 1. Vol. l. of THE
Prison MIRROR, printed and published
at Saltwater, Mimi, by the prisoners in
the penitentary. We hail this as proof
that the inmates of the institution are trying
prison authorities are imbued with liberal
ideas and disposed to give'those under their
charge a chance to relieve the tedum and
mOnOtOny of prison life. We want to see
every convict come out into the world when
his time expires reformed man, determined
to lead an honest life in the future, and be-
leve that this little journal. properly con-
Quoted, will aid him in so dong. st.
Charles Union, Aug. 18th.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

Charlie Mcdonnell. of the Ryan, was
yesterday distributing copies of the PRISON
MIRROR. paper recently issued by the i'll
mates of the Saltwater pententiary.
Every reporter that came in was met with
the greeting, Here's the sheet you will be
reporting on if you don't mend your ways"
subscriptions for The MIRROR.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17
WHAT 1 LIVE FOR.

l live for those who love me,
For those know are true,
For the heaven that shines above me.
And awaits my spirit too;
For the human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
Ane the good that | can do.
l live to learn their story,
Who suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake.
Bards, martyrs. patriots, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown history's pages,
And tines great volume make.
live to hail the season.
By gifted minds foretOld,
When men shall rule by reason,
And not alone by gold.
When man to man united.
And every wrong thing righted.
The whole world shall be lighted,
AS Eden was of old.
| 1--we to hold communion,
With ali that is divine,
To feel there is a un:On.
'TwiAt Natures heart and mine,
TO profit by affection,
Reap truths from fields Of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction
And fulfill each grand design.
live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit, too;
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that | can do.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

THE MIRROR Is not as perfect in make
up this week as we had hoped to have it,
Owing to the confusion of removal and at
tending unforeseen accidents, we have been
too busy to take as much pains as we would
like to have done, and hope our friends will
overlook our numerous imperfections.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

the kind published. vast amount of informa
ton may be cleaned from its columns touching up
on prison matters. 1t is published weekly, and
the subscription price is 81 per annum 1t deserves
to succeed and we truly hope it may.-E 'gerton
Enterprise.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

The nOtOriety of our work is OF no con-
sequence. The earneStneSS and accuracy
with which we strike our blow is all i'm
pOrtant. but it matters nothing how far it
echoes. McLaren. /.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

We are in receipt of the initial number of the
PRISON MIRROR, remarkably neat four column
folio. edited and published by the prisoners in the
saltwater penitcntiary. 1t is the only paper of
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

The town of MilbrOOk, Kansas, was
nearly wiped out by cyclone OH Thursday
of last week.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

Dakota has population of 6OO.O 900 and
but 40 confined in the penitentiaries.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-08-17

The Chinese alphabet is composed of
over thirty thousand characters.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17
y. T.. Willis and Miss Canda.

Willis was a handsome man, and got
his reputation for frivolity by his fondness
for society, and from the fact that he was
always in love TO the day Of his death. To
this circumstance was due many of his
best poems, notably the one beginning:
It's midnight deep. Icame but now
From the close air OF lighted halls.
Perhaps one of the sweetest love poems in
the language. II occurred in this way:
Willis was at a large party In West Wash
ington place, where he met Miss Char
lotte Canda, a beautiful and very accom-
plished girl, after whose father the Canda
house in Lafayette place, then her resi-
dence, was named. He had met her often
before, and this time their Irritation be.
came very serious. They kept early hours
in those days, and Willis left before mid.
night, Miss Canda soon after. She
was sitting in the carriage waiting for her
father. and il never was known how the
thing occurred, but il wa supposed that,
the coachman. leaving his horses for a mo-
ment, they ran, and the lovely girl was
thrown or jumped from the carriage on
the corner Of Broadway and Washington
place. She struck her head and was car
ried insensible into the New York hotel,
where she died in half IN hour. While
she was dying Willis was in his room,
and. as he afterward told me, writing this
poem. and declared that, had she lived,
she would have been his wife. He was
devotedly attached TO his mother, and al.
together a very lovable man, and yet.
strange to say, he never got along with
his sister, Fanny Fern, nor she with him,
a circumstance which | attribute TO the
fact that rs ungallant as it may he 10 say
it, Fanny was what may emphatically be
called a ''nipper. ~. W. Watson in
Pioneer Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17
The Ladies' OF Lima.

The ladies Of Lima are all eyes. They
have the reputation Of being, rs a class,
the most beautiful in the world, and meet.
ing them on the way to mass in the morn
ing or shopping later in the day, n can
see how they obtained il. But, knowing
them in their homes, the opinion changes,
and you conclude after calm reflection
that they are not so pretty as the women
Of New YOIk. II is the manta, which
they wear in such a coquettish way, that
gives them their reputation for beauty,
for It conceals every feature except their
b%ewitching eyes and lovely olive COM
plexion. No matter how ugly her mouth
or her nose is; no matter how high her
cheek bones or large her ears; no matter
whether she il as scrawny as a scarecrow
or as bald as a bat, a manta will make
any woman with pretty eyes look hand
some, and, like charity, it covers a multi,
tude of sins. The garment, which is
peculiar 10 Peru, and is worn by ladies Of
all ages and social positions, from the
presidents wife to the laundress who
comes after your linen, is a sort of foster
sister to the mantilla Of Spain. II is usu-
ally Of crepe from China, and costs any
where from $40 to $500, according TO its
quality .-Buenos Ayres Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17

Baron Zedwith, the military attache Of
the German legation, was the most gor-
gous thing In regimentals there. His
light blue coat, his tight white breeches
and his beautiful patent leather boots
made one soberly uniformed e~nyious, and
when il came TO aigrettes. and loops and
cords, and frogs and medals, any Ameri-
can bandmaster would die Of envy. He
carries n helmet that, wits its white horse
tail, is as large as a beehive. and il fills
his arm like a debutante's biggest bouquet.
His patent leather boots, that reach up
over his knees, do not look like real war
fare, or even riding academy practice, and
the ferOcious looking silver spurs, that
ring unsteady every time he sets his heel
down in the decisive Prussian marching
step, have no points OF the rowels at all,
simply little round pieces Of silver, that
only look dangerous at a distance, and
warn the wearers Of tulle dresses TO keep
away .-Globe-D Democrat.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17
Talking About Carpets.

I'VE have in stock no less than a
thousand patterns Of carpets" said the
manager Of a big carpet store On Wabash
avenue, and our present stock comprises
5000 rolls. Not one Of these patterns
is more than a year old. The activity
OF the carpet designers and manufac-
turers Is something marvellous. Perhaps
as many as 800 or 2 ,0O0n new patterns are
produced in a year in this country alone.
There are carpet designers in this country
who draw salaries as high as $4,000
a year. The most expensive carpets in
u stock are $3.50 a yard, but we often
make carpets TO order, or have them made
in Scotland Of best Administer, that cost
as much as s24 a square yard, laid. 1t is
quite the fashion among wealthy people in
Chicago to have the carpets for their
libraries and parlors made to order from
designs furnished by their decorators, l
have often seen 81, 200 or $1,000 worth OF
carpet put into n room Of ordinary
size. Chicago Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17
The Central Asistics.

Gen. Prjevalsky estimates the whole
population Of Central Asia at about
o,OO0,OOO, spread over an extent of l20. go
square miles, Like all peoples living
under Asiatic despotism, they have no
motions whatever Of virtue, honor or
duty, and they exhibit no leanings Of any
kind toward European civilization and
culture. The most frightful immortality
and revolving despotism reign in the family
life of the sedentary populations, while
the nOmads, strange to say, are milder,
more modest and more sincere.
The general expatiates at great length
on their fervent desire TO be annexed TO
the Russian . Only In Thibet is
this feeling ~ pronounced, owing TO the
fact that the Itussians are so little known
there. The dream ~ the nomadic Mon
Rols, the DOugsns-L e., the Chinese
Northumberland the inhabitants Of
Eastern Turkestan Rre 10 become inhabit-
q Of the grent white car, whose name,
with that Of the Dalai Lama, Of Thibet,
ngures in their ~imaginations as the SYM
Dol Of magical power and authority.
NJ some places visited by the Russian
expedition the Mohammedan mOllahs i'm
plored The general 10 permit them TO rise
AND murder every Chinese in the district
In the name Of the mighty car. only
trumpet the cars name. y said these sup
plicants, from the mountain tops, and not
q single Chinese will live" The insup-
portable oppression Of China on the one
side and the gradual introduction OF order
and prosperity by Russia on the other
must inevitably push forward Russian
dominion London Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-17
A Hideous Museum.

Among the numerous collectors Of curl.
osities Of every kind who abound in Paris
there is one wealthy yirtuoso who amuses
himself by collecting deaths heads and
skeletons Enthusiastically carved or modelled
in marble, e~arthenware, wood or precious
stones. These he has gathered together
in a kind Of museum Of death, which al
first sight seems hideous and ''macabre, -
but on closer inspection proves highly in
teresting. Some of the heads have been
detached from those old medieval rosary
beads which were usually ornamented on
one side with the profile Of a king or a
saint and on the other with the %grinning
face OF Il skeleton. One Of the most hid.
eous, yet al the same time most artistically
executed OF the figures, is that Of a skele.
ton engaged in taking from of his bones
the ''conqneror worms which have been
claiming him as their own. The collector
has given a lugubriOus reality to the OBJ
jects in his museum by placing here and
there among them the skulls Of dead
women. Paris Cor. London Telegraph.